Scott Pruitt

Scott Pruitt (9 May 1968-) was the Attorney General of Oklahoma (R) from 10 January 2011, succeeding Drew Edmondson. On 7 December 2016, President-elect Donald Trump nominated him to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an organization which Pruitt had sued several times.

Biography
Scott Pruitt was born on 9 May 1968 in Danville, Kentucky, and he attended the University of Oklahoma, passing the bar examination in 1993. From 1998 to 2006, Pruitt served as a state senator from Tulsa and Wagoner counties as a US Republican Party politician, and he failed in gubernatorial and lieutenant-gubernatorial bids. In 2010, however, he was elected the State Attorney-General, and he fought against the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming that natural gas pollution was a lie. On 7 December 2016, Donald Trump nominated him to be his new EPA secretary due to his opposition to eco-friendly policies.